6-Year-Old Boy Kidnapped Because His Family Wanted to Teach Him a Lesson

They thought he was just "too nice" to strangers.

At some point our parents have warned all of us not to talk to strangers, especially ones with candy. But this Missouri family's attempt to teach one six-year-old boy that lesson got completely and cruelly out of control.

Elizabeth Hupp, the boy's 25-year-old mother, allegedly staged a plot to kidnap her son so he'd learn to stop being "so nice to people," police told CNN.

After getting off his school bus, the little boy was coaxed into a pickup truck by his aunt's coworker, Nathan Wynn Firoved. His face was covered with a coat so he couldn't see and he was taken to his mother's basement. There he was tied up with plastic bags, his aunt removed his pants, and Nathan told him that he would never "see his mommy again," according to the Lincoln County sheriff's statement.

When the boy started to cry, Firoved, 23, reportedly showed him a gun, and threatened to hurt him if he didn't stop whimpering.

After being bound to the wall for a few hours, the child was told to go upstairs where his mother, grandmother, and aunt were waiting to lecture him about "stranger danger," the police statement said.

Shockingly, the family thinks their actions were totally acceptable. "Family members told investigators their primary intent was to educate the victim and felt they did nothing wrong," the press release said.

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